Chemistry
‘Target identified’: teaching a machine how to identify imperfections in 2D materials
Applying machine learning to automated characterisation of atomically-thin materialsCredit: FLEET Just as James Cameron's Terminator-800 was able to discriminate between...
Molybdenum disulfide ushers in era of post-silicon photonics
Credit: Daria Sokol/MIPT Press Office Researchers of the Center for Photonics and Two-Dimensional Materials at MIPT, together with their colleagues...
Filming a 3D video of a virus with instantaneous light and AI
Credit: POSTECH It is millions of trillions of times brighter than the sunlight and a whopping 1,000 trillionth of a...
Researchers investigate imaginary part in quantum resource theory
Credit: WU Kangda et al. Recently, research team led by academician GUO Guangcan from CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information...
Pressure-regulated excitonic feature enhances photocurrent of all-inorganic 2D perovski
Credit: Xujie Lü HPSTAR scientists Dr. Songhao Guo and Dr. Xujie Lü report three orders of magnitude increase in the...
Sesaminol: Parkinson’s disease’s surprise medicine
Osaka City University shows that sesaminol, purified from industrial sesame seed by-product, can help prevent Parkinson's disease.Credit: Akiko Kojima-Yuasa Sesame...
Researchers identify brain ion channel as new approach to treating depression
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified a drug that...
Solving the biochemical conundrum at the dawn of life on Earth
UNC-Chapel Hill scientists Charles Carter, Qi Zhang, and Abigail Knight were awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to...
Food for thought: New maps reveal how brains are kept nourished
Micro-scale depictions solve century-old puzzle of brain energy use and blood vessel clustersCredit: Xiang Ji and Edmund O'Donnell, UC San...
Indoors, outdoors, 6 feet apart? Transmission risk of airborne viruses can be quantified
The dynamics of how aerosols travel from one person to another, under different circumstancesCredit: Mj Riches In the 1995 movie...
Oregon researchers unveil the weaving fractal network of connecting neurons
Quest to design implants to treat macular degeneration leads research team to a discovery that connectivity is completed with a...
NRL physicist earns 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
Credit: Matthew Kerr; U.S. Naval Research Laboratory WASHINGTON -- Imagine living in a large city. New York City, Los Angeles,...
Dethroning electrocatalysts for hydrogen production with inexpensive alternative material
Credit: Tokyo Tech Today, we can say without a shadow of doubt that an alternative to fossil fuels is needed....
The expanding possibilities of bio-based polymers
Researchers from the Kleij group present a new route to prepare biobased polyesters with tuneable propertiesCredit: ICIQ/Francesco Della Monica Finding...
Bitter receptor involved in anti-inflammatory effect of resveratrol?
Human gum cells as a test system for investigating interactions between resveratrol, bitter receptors and the release of inflammatory markersCredit:...
Astrophysicist’s 2004 theory confirmed: Why the Sun’s composition varies
Credit: American Astronomical Society (AAS) WASHINGTON -- About 17 years ago, J. Martin Laming, an astrophysicist at the U.S. Naval...
Model describes interactions between light and mechanical vibration in microcavities
Study by researchers at the University of Campinas published in Physical Review Letters discusses both light dispersion by vibrations inside...
Soft and comfortable e-textiles that can be used to measure photoplenthysmography
The performances of fiber optoelectronic components were improved by wrapping electrodes with desired shapes around the thread. Fiber photodiodes were...
Dresden researchers develop new strategy for efficient OLED active matrix displays
Credit: ©Zhongbin Wu In the group of Prof. Karl Leo, physicists, material scientists and engineers are working jointly on the...
Cleaner air, less soil pollution: Unintended but beneficial side effect of Clean Air Act
Credit: Yuepeng Pan Removal of pollutants from the air, or atmospheric deposition, is a natural cleaning mechanism. However, the removed...
